Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:10:39 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors Message-ID: <20110719211039.GA16085@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <E8F5CB22-21D5-4AF9-A690-1DB99D31F4CC@mac.com> References: <CAN6yY1uaUqk2ifiNViJyMFJWf60a4DmCiVs3Z=--_TjtzseABQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110718234124.GA5626@icarus.home.lan> <CAN6yY1uaEwoEhEuoTNPqzywRaCPEvcLY-ddyFRUV00FcBDU1BA@mail.gmail.com> <E8F5CB22-21D5-4AF9-A690-1DB99D31F4CC@mac.com>
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--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Unix operating >systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE >of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using >2048-byte sectors, Actually, Sun used customised CD-ROM drives that faked 512-byte sectors to work around their lack of support for anything else. > some of the early 1990's era SCSI >hard drives supported low-level reformatting to a different sector >size like 1024 or 2048 bytes. Did anyone actually do this? I wanted to but was warned against it by the local OS rep (this was a Motorola SVR2). --=20 Peter Jeremy --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4l8s8ACgkQ/opHv/APuIdr6QCbB0i+eC2SlCpl8QEOI4k6D9bi UpEAoLmRwdNcctv41lYY3bmRtKhK7tLO =fzEl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--
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